Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Hours

Since I was sick on Wednesday, watching the movie, The Hours, in class today was rather perplexing. From what I gathered from my classmates, the movie was already pretty complicated, and starting to watch it about thirty minutes into the story surely made it even odder.

But, I'm not saying that I don't like it so far.

Despite the fact that I'm really not too sure about what's going on, it seems to be a really clever way of doing a movie version of Mrs. Dalloway. Seeing the chronologically most recent set of characters was especially interesting to me, especially after the many conversations in class about who Clarissa should or shouldn't have married. Seeing a version of the story where she ends up with Sally was really strange to me; it was remarkable how similar Clarissa's situation was in the movie to her situation in the book. By that, I mean how she's still giving parties and trying to be the perfect hostess, while having constant doubts about herself.

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